Miguel Trevino Morales

Miguel "El Cuarenta" Trevino Morales (18 November 1970-) was the leader of the Los Zetas drug cartel from 2012 to 2013, succeeding Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano and preceding Omar Trevino Morales.

Biography
Miguel Trevino Morales was born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico on 18 November 1970. As a youth, he became a member of a criminal gang in Nuevo Laredo and smuggled contraband into the United States; he would become fluent in English from this experience. He was recruited into the Gulf Cartel by Osiel Cardenas Guillen during the late 1990s, and he became the regional boss of Los Zetas in Nuevo Laredo in 2005. In 2006, he secured the Nuevo Laredo smuggling routes after a gang war with the Sinaloa Cartel, and he became the leader of Los Zetas in Veracruz after Efrain Teodoro Torres' death in 2007. After wiping out the cartel's competitors in Guatemala, Trevino was promoted to national commander of Los Zetas in 2008. Trevino Morales was responsible for intimidating officials and citizens throughout Mexico as national commander, and he was responsible for murdering 73 migrants in 2010 and massacring 193 more people at San Fernando a year later. In 2012, he replaced Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano as boss of Los Zetas following Lazcano's death, emerging as the victor of a power struggle within the group. On 15 July 2013, he was arrested by the Mexican Navy marines in a bloodless raid in Nuevo Leon, and his younger brother Omar Trevino Morales succeeded him as boss.